Mobile telephone integration system

• US 9,573,533 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2014
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Peiker Acustic GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: Peiker Acustic GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Lachnitt, Jens
• Primary Examiner(s): Eng, George
• Assistant Examiner(s): DU, HUNG K
• Application Number:
  US14/532,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20150126248A1
• Time in Patent Office: 840 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0241 for telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers

Abstract

The invention relates to a mobile telephone integration system for integration of a mobile telephone into a vehicle.

Claims

1. A mobile telephone integration system for integration of a mobile telephone into a vehicle, comprising at least a first adapter and a holding and contact apparatus,

the first adapter comprising a bearing surface,

it being possible for the mobile telephone to be placed on the bearing surface,

the holding and contact apparatus being fastened to the vehicle,

the first adapter being detachably connected to the holding and contact apparatus and comprising a main body, and

a first interface to the mobile telephone,

the first interface of the first adapter being in the form of a wireless charging interface by means of which electrical energy can be wirelessly transmitted from a charging coil of an inductive charging unit of the first adapter to a receiver coil of the mobile telephone,

when the first adapter is mechanically connected to the holding and contact apparatus in a use position, and

the first adapter is connected electrically to the holding and contact apparatus in the use position in such a way that a multicore electrical line of the first adapter is connected electrically by one of a wire and wirelessly to a multicore electrical line of the holding and contact apparatus,

wherein the first adapter further comprises at least one holding means, the at least one holding means being arranged on the first adapter to be at least one of pivotable against a spring force of a spring about a pivot axis, displaceable against the spring force of the spring, and rotatable about a rotation axis against the spring force of the spring.

2. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, the first adapter further comprising a second interface to the mobile telephone, which is in the form of a wireless antenna coupling interface between a coupling antenna of a coupling device of the first adapter and an antenna of the mobile telephone for transmission of antenna signals to and from the mobile telephone.

3. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first adapter is mechanically connected to the holding and contact apparatus in a use position in such a way that an interlocking connection between the first adapter and the holding and contact apparatus is established by the at least one holding means, said connection designed such that the first adapter is fixed to the holding and contact apparatus to prevent removal.

4. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wireless charging interface of the first adapter is operated in accordance with a first standard.

5. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a second adapter, a wireless charging interface of the second adapter being operated in accordance with a second wireless charging standard, the second wireless charging standard being different from a first wireless charging standard used by the first adapter, wherein at least the second adapter and the first adapter are used alternately with the holding and contact apparatus in the mobile telephone integration system.

6. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a third adapter, a wireless charging interface of the third adapter being operated in accordance with a third wireless charging standard, the third wireless charging standard being different from at least a first wireless charging standard used by the first adapter, wherein the third adapter and the first adapter are used alternately with the holding and contact apparatus in the mobile telephone integration system.

7. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the holding and contact apparatus further comprises at least one recess for engaging a free end of the at least one holding means of the first adapter.

8. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a control means, the control means positioned on the bearing surface and during operation entering at least one of the first adapter and the contact and holding apparatus, the operation of said control means operating the at least one holding means against the spring force in the use position such that the interlocking connection between the holding means and the first adapter is canceled.

9. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the control means is in the form of a bar with several offset portions.

10. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the inductive charging unit of the first adapter is operated in accordance with a Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) standard for WPC charging mats.

11. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first adapter is held in an interlocking manner in a console of the vehicle and the holding and contact apparatus is in the form of a contact apparatus.

12. The mobile telephone integration system as claimed in claim 5,

wherein the second adapter further comprises at least one holding means, the at least one holding means being arranged on the second adapter to be at least one of pivotable against a spring force of a spring about a pivot axis, displaceable against the spring force of the spring, and rotatable about a rotation axis against the spring force of the spring.

13. The mobile telephone integrations system as claimed in claim 6,

wherein the third adapter further comprises at least one holding means, the at least one holding means being arranged on the third adapter to be at least one of pivotable against a spring force of a spring about a pivot axis, displaceable against the spring force of the spring, and rotatable about a rotation axis against the spring force of the spring.

14. The mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 12, wherein the one recess of the holding and contact apparatus engages a free end of the at least one holding means of the second adapter.

15. The mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the holding and contact apparatus further comprises at least one recess for engaging a free end of the holding means of the third adapter.

16. The mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 12, further comprising a control means positioned on a bearing surface of the second adapter and when depressed during operation enters at least one of the second adapter and the holding and contact apparatus, the operation of said control means operating the at least one holding means against the spring force in the use position such that the interlocking connection between the holding means and the second adapter is canceled.

17. The mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 13, further comprising a control means positioned on the bearing surface of the third adapter and when depressed during operation enters at least one of the third adapter and the contact and holding apparatus, the operation of said control means operating the at least one holding means against the spring force in the use position such that the interlocking connection between the holding means and the third adapter is canceled.

18. The mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 16, wherein the control means is in the form of a bar with several offset portions.

19. The mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the control means is in the form of a bar with several offset portions.

20. The mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 5, wherein a charging unit of the second adapter is operated in accordance with a Powermat standard for Powermat charging mats.

21. The mobile telephone system as claimed in claim 6, wherein a charging unit of the third adapter is operated in accordance with an Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) standard for A4WP charging mats.